Colloquium on Race, Ethnicity and Immigration

The Institute of Governmental Studies sponsors a Colloquium on Race, Ethnicity and Immigration through the Center on Immigration, Race and Ethnicity. The colloquium invites speakers from the Berkeley campus and other institutions to report on research touching on various aspects of this broad topic. One important theme explored by the colloquium is the changing shape of ethnic politics in the country. A second, closely related theme is the impact of immigration on the nation and on California's political and economic life.

The 2000 Census and its subsequent updates have indicated important changes in the country's ethnic make-up, with large increases in the Latino population, the emergence of a group of residents who prefer to identify themselves as bi-racial, and changing patterns of naturalization among the various immigrant groups. These changes have altered the meaning of the civil rights revolution and have important implications for public opinion, electoral outcomes and government policy. For more information, contact Nicole Fox at nfox@berkeley.edu.

Fall 2009 Schedule of Speakers

Check back at this page for further details on individual events as the date of each seminar comes nearer.

October 2, 2009 at 12PM, 119 Moses Hall (Harris Room)
"Diversity and the Imagined Community: Immigration, Economic Inequality, and Social Cohesion Across Countries and Over Time."
Matthew Wright, Ph.D. candidate
Department of Political Science

October 16, 2009 at 12PM, 119 Moses Hall (Harris Room)
"A Social Psychological Perspective on the Effects of Stigma"
Professor Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton
Psychology Department at UC Berkeley

November 20, 2009 at 12PM, 119 Moses Hall (Harris Room)
Professor Mark Sawyer

December 4, 2009 at 12PM, 119 Moses Hall (Harris Room)
Naomi Hsu

Past Speakers

Spring 2009

January 29, 2009 at 2PM, 119 Moses Hall (Harris Room)
"The Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics"
Dr. Lester K. Spence
Johns Hopkins University

February 17, 2009 at 4PM, 202 Barrows
"Racial Politics, Policy Feedback, and the Growth of the Carceral State"
Dr. Vesla Weaver
Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics

March 5, 2009 at 2PM, 109 Moses Hall (IGS Library)
Panel discussion on: "The 2008 National Asian American Survey"

Dr. Jane Junn
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Eagleton
Institute of Politics
Rutgers University

Dr. Taeku Lee
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
University of CA, Berkeley

Dr. Karthick Ramakrishnan
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
University of CA, Riverside

Dr. Janelle Wong
Associate Professor, Departments of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity
University of Southern California

March 12, 2009 at 5PM, 109 Moses Hall (IGS Library)
"Convergent or Divided Loyalties: Immigrant Organizations in the Political Incorporation of Latin Migrants in the US"
Dr. Alejandro Portes
Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Princeton University

April 16, 2009 at 2PM, 119 Moses Hall (Harris Room)
"Multifaceted Ideology: Explaining the Dynamics of African-American Conservatism."
Dr. Tasha S. Philpot
Assistant Professor of Government
Department of Government
University of Texas at Austin

April 23, 2009 at 12PM, 202 Barrows
"A One-Way Ticket on a One-Lane Road? Multiple Dimensions (Roads) of Latino Assimilation on Political Participation"
Dr. Victoria DeFrancesco Soto
Assistant Professor of Political Science and African American Studies
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University

April 30, 2009 at 2PM, 119 Moses Hall (Harris Room)
"Shifting Partisan Coalitions: Support for Civil Rights in Congress from 1933-1972"
Dr. Eric Schickler
Department of Political Science
University of CA, Berkeley

Fall 2008

October 9, 2008
Cybelle Fox
RWJ Scholar in Health Policy Research, Assistant Professor in Sociology, UC Berkeley
"The Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and City-Level Spending on Public and Private Outdoor Relief in the US, 1929"

October 23, 2008
Eric McDaniel
"The Prophetic and the Prosperous: The Political Consequences of Religious Interpretation"

November 6, 2008
Alex Street and Andrew Kelley
Topic to be announced

Spring 2008

January 24, 2008
Dr. Naomi Murakawa
"The Origins of the Carceral Crisis: Racial Order as 'Law and Order' in Postwar American Politics"

February 14, 2008
Dr. Rafaela Dancygier
"Immigration and Conflict in Great Britain, Germany, and France"

March 7, 2008
Dr. Peggy Levitt
"Tales from the Field: Reflections on the Challenges of Multi-Sited Ethnography"

March 20, 2008
Dr. Roger Waldinger
"Rethinking Transnationalism"

April 17, 2008
Claire Adida, Ph.D. candidate
"Too Close for Comfort? Immigrant-Host Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa"

May 8, 2008
Dr. Christopher Parker
"Evaluating the Urban Crisis of the 1960s Anew: Was Military Service a Factor?"

May 15, 2008
Dr. Irene Bloemraad and Dr. Naomi Hsu
"Strange Bedfellows or Compatible Coalitions? Partisan Voting and Party Defection over Immigration Votes in the House of Representatives, 1983-1996"

Fall 2007

October 11, 2007
Dr. Taeku Lee and Dr. Mark Sawyer
"Race in the City of Angels: Preliminary Report on the 2007 Los Angeles County Social Survey"

October 25, 2007
Dr. Ron Hayduk
"Immigrants and Race: Potential and Peril for Multiracial Coalitions"

November 14, 2007
Dr. Janelle Wong
"Does Faith Transcend Race? Religious and Racial Coalition Prospects among Contemporary Immigrants"

November 16, 2007
Dr. Gregory Rodriguez
"Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America"

Spring 2007

January 25, 2007
Dr. Eric Oliver
"The Paradoxes of Segregation: Race, Neighborhood, and Civic Life in Multi-Ethnic America"

February 1, 2007
Dr. Tali Mendelberg
"Small Group Deliberation"

March 15, 2007
Dr. Kanchan Chandra
"The Weakness of Explicit Ethnic Apppeals"

April 26, 2007
Dr. Jennifer Hochschild
"Unstable Boundaries: Skin Color, Immigration, Multiracialism, and the American Racial/Ethnic Order"

May 3, 2007
Dr. Jack Citrin and Dr. John Sides
"How Large the Huddled Masses: The Causes and Consequences of Public Misperceptions about Immigrant Populations?"
[Read or download paper in PDF format here]

Fall 2006

October 19, 2006
Dr. Rogers Smith
"Hard Cases: Racial Orders in Contemporary American Politics"

November 2, 2006
Dr. Harwood McClerking
"Putting it Out There: How Black Institutions Affect Black Group Identification"

November 16, 2006
Dr. Matt Barreto
"New Adventures in Latino Politics Research: A Model of Ethnic Voting"

November 30, 2006
Dr. Anthony Chen
Dr. Rob Mickey
Dr. Rob Van Houweling
"Who Led Whom? Party Leaders, Voters, and California's 1946 Ballot Initiative on Fair Employment"

Spring 2006

March 17, 2006
Michael Jones-Correa, Department of Political Science, Cornell University, "Immigrant Incorporation in Suburbia: Spatial Sorting, Ethnic Mobilization and Receiving Institutions."

April 7, 2006
Christopher Parker, Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara and Robert Wood Johnson Scholar, "Political Allegiance: A Contemporary Assessment."

May 4, 2006
Darren Davis, Department of Political Science, Michigan State University, "Public Opinion, Civil Liberties, and the Terrorist Attacks on America."

May 12, 2006
Larry Bobo, Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor and Director, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and Program in African and African American Studies at Stanford University, "Prejudice in Politics: Group Position, Public Opinion, and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute."

May 22, 2006
Noah Pickus, Associate Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, "Immigration and the Politics of Citizenship."

Fall 2005

Friday, October 28: Gary Segura, Department of Political Science, University of Washington, "Thinking Through the Question of Racial Identity Among Latinos." See Dr. Segura's paper, "Race Matters: Latino Racial Identities and Political Beliefs"

Friday, November 4: Michel Laguerre, Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology, University of California, Berkeley, "Mapping the Global Arena of Diasporic Politics."

Friday, December 2: Ricardo Ramirez, Departments of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, "Elusive Targets or Bad Aim? The Effects of Residential Mobility on Patterns of Mobilization." See Dr. Ramirez' paper, "Residential Mobility and Latino Political Mobilization"

Friday, December 9: Luis Fraga, Department of Political Science, Stanford University, "Strategic Intersectionality: Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Incorporation"

 

Academic Year 2002-2003

Karthick Ramakrishnan (Public Policy Instiute of California) will present on April 9. Title TBA.

Wayne A. Cornelius (UC San Diego) and Enrico Marcelli (U Mass, Boston) March 21, 2003 "Immigrant Voting in Home-Country Elections: Potential Consequences of Extending the Franchise to Expatriate Mexicans."

David Kyle spoke on "Seeing the State Like a Migrant: Why So Many Non-Criminal Foreigners Break Immigration and Labor Laws." David Kyle (Sociology, UC Davis) February 5, 2003.

Ricardo Ramirez (Public Policy Institute of California) discussed "Non-Partisan Latino Voter Mobilization...Where No Party Has Gone Before" on January 29, 2003.

Rui De Figueiredo (UC Berkeley) December 18, 2002 talk was entitled "Are Patriots Bigots?"

Taeku Lee (UC Berkeley) presented on "Panethnic Identity, Linked Fate, and the Political Significance of 'Asian American'" on November 20, 2002.

Joseph Nevins (UC Berkeley) will speak on October 30, 2002. His talk is entitled" "Bounded By the Law: Human Rights and the 'Illegalization' of Immigrants"

Benjamin Highton (UC Davis), Jack Citrin (UC Berkeley), and John Sides (UC Berkeley) on October 1, 2002 at noon in the Harris room at IGS. They spoke on"Ethnic Change, Immigrant Incorporation, and Voting in California."

 

Academic Year 2001-2002

Rey Koslowski (Rutgers) spoke on April 25. You can download Koslowski's paper here (Microsoft Word file).

Alan Kessler, Visiting Fellow, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UCSD, presented "Ethnic Identity, Economic Insecurity, and American Attitudes toward Immigration Policy Reconsidered." on March 1, 2002. You can download his paper here (Adobe PDF).

Claudine Gay (Stanford University) presented "Racial Ambivalence and the Good Life: The Effect of Socio-Economic Context on Perceptions of Common Fate" on February 25, 2002.

Associate Professor of Sociology John Skrentny (UCSD) presented "The Minority Rights Revolution," an overview of his new book on January 28, 2002.

Professor Martin Gilens (UCLA), spoke on "Segmented Stereotypes: Race, Gender and Public Opposition to Welfare" on December 17, 2001

Chris Rudolph, from the Center for International Studies, University of Southern California spoke on November 26. His talk, "Security, Sovereignty, and International Migration," focused on how migration is set at the nexus of two opposing dynamics of contemporary international politics: trading state globalization and societal security. Rudolph argues that while state grand strategy during the post-war period was initially skewed toward openness and then followed by a reactionary impulse toward closure, the past decade is characterized by state desires to finesse societal/identity issues while returning to an economic-maximizing grand strategy.

The inaugural speaker was Professor David Sears from UCLA on Monday, October 29. Professor Sears' topic was: "Race, Religion, and Sectional Conflict in Contemporary Partisanship."